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Articles in Jan 4, 1986 issue of Science News

• 1985 Ad
• To save the monarchs - monarch butterflies
  by Janet Raloff
• Radwaste crisis narrowly averted - legislation against radioactive pollution
  by J. Raloff
• Going Bohr's way in physics - Niels Bohr's centennial
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• An economic case for banning smoking?
  by Janet Ralof
• Nicotine: a drug of choice?
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Leg 106 treats: heat vents, sea creatures, engineering feats - Ocean Drilling Project research
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Airborne nutrients for forests
• Holism and particlism in physics
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Harvest of white blood cells - new means of collecting white blood cells from animals for research
• Skinner boxing; take your seats, please. The guru of behaviorism is set to challenge the palookas who discarded his scientific approach - B.F. Skinner
  by Bruce Bower
• In tragedy's wake, NASA budget uncertain - space shuttle explosion
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Signs and sounds of high blood pressure
  by Bruce Bower
• Pineal gland speaks to the brain
• Monkeying with dogwood evolution - effects of feeding habits of Old World monkeys on dogwood evolution
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Season gingerly to retard rancidity
• 1986 Ad
• EPA decides not to ban daminozide
• Female-to-male AIDS link found
  by Joaanne Silberner
• U.S. firms: half import researchers
• Protons meet antiprotons at 1,600 GeV
  by Dietrich E. Thomsen
• Volcanoes, El Ninos: climatic ties?
• Stuffing bricks and mortar into research funding - Department of Defense grants used for college buildings
  by Ivars Peterson
• Where do storks come from, mommy? - system of classifying birds by similarities in their genetic material
• Electric currents transported quantally
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Vaccinia hitched to new load - used to carry respiratory syncytial virus
• Physics to the end of the century
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• New U.S.-Soviet accord - agreement for scientific cooperation
• Pinpointing solar-cell efficiency
  by Ivars Peterson
• Gravity lines linked to mantle motion
• Eukaryotes, prokaryotes: who's first? - statistical analysis on most ancient living things
• New dates for 'early' tools
• The danger of polyester-cotton blends - fabric flammability
• Blame it on your sebaceous glands - cause of baldness
• Putting human tissue under glass - vitrifying organs to preserve them for transplants
  by Joanne Silberner
• NASA sets sensors for 1990 return to Mars
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Serendipity: supernova in Centaurus A
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Noisy bubble clouds - underwater noise caused by oscillation of bubbles near ocean's surface
  by Ivars Peterson
• All quiet on the El Nino front
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Being and nothingness - constraints on types of possible patterns in evolution
• The look of music - research on synthetes, people with a brain condition that causes welding of senses
• OSHA tightens asbestos rules
  by Trina Kleist
• Oral ecology; a matter of attachment - dental research - part 1
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Milestone for man-made geothermal well
  by Mary Murray
• One hamburger, hold the hormones - bovine thyroid tissue in hamburger causes metabolism boost
• AIDS: new viruses to fill in the blanks
  by Lisa Davis
• Don't share the air - role of airborne particles in transmission of common cold
  by Lisa Davis
• The underwater sound of rain
  by Ivars Peterson
• Seismic waves trapped in a fault - standing waves in geologic faults
• Comet Halley: a close look on a hot day
  by J. Eberhart
• Damage in Mexico: a double quake
• Blown away: froth of cosmic bubbles - research indicates universe is a froth of large empty volumes with galaxies clustered in their walls
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Calculating homely radon's daughters - radon's decay products as health hazard
• Dragging frames of relativity - measurement of drag due to earth's rotation
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• The last, tragic mission of Challenger - space shuttle accident
  by Ivars Peterson
• Lighting up alcohol drops - laser used to illuminate falling droplets
• Nova Scotia fossils illuminate 200-million-year-old changes
  by Bruce Bower
• And then there were many - angiogenesis may cause heart attacks
  by Joanne Silberner
• Sensory surprises in platypus, mantis
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Europe plans 5 new science satellites
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Iodized cancer therapy; iodine may be the key to making some incurable cancers more susceptible to radiation therapy
  by Janet Raloff
• SPOT satellite launched
• A forest grows in Antarctica - an extensive forest may have flourished about 3 million years ago
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Flip side of 'winter depression.'
• See how they run: motion symmetry - research on designing walking and running robots
  by Ivars Peterson
• Signs of El Nino and climate upheaval
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Spots in the air: a comet controversy
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Robot staff for nuclear power plants
• Aerosol spread of diarrheal diseases
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Taking a look at Ada - computer language
• Sounding out gallstones - shock waves used to break up gallstones
• Biodegradable implant for broken bones
  by Janet Raloff
• Toying with a touch of chaos - Space Ball toy
  by Ivars Peterson
• Long-UV light may cause cancer …
• Chernobyl: emerging data on accident
  by Janet Raloff
• PET project with psychiatric drugs - positive emission tomography
• War-on-cancer numbers
  by Joanne Silberner
• The bottom will not fall out - inflationary cosomolgy and its treatment of the vacuum
• Continuing the hunt for funds - universities seeking federal aid for research
  by Ivars Peterson
• Down the road to skin … - embryo development
  by Julie Ann Miller

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